Hi all, I spent some time on IRC and have volunteered to maintain the maven releases for Cassandra. Our company uses maven heavily, and I found getting up and running with Cassandra/Pelops etc was more time consuming as a user than I feel it should be. I personally feel that if Cassandra is published via the main maven repo, this will encourage the deployment of other client binaries to the main repository and make the community a bit easier to join as a maven user.
I've downloaded the 6.2 source from svn, and have experimented with adding pom generation from the ant build file via ivy. Unfortunately the ant ivy:makepom task seems too inadequate to perform the tasks that will be required to publish a working dependency of cassandra. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of what attempts have been made to add pom and maven functionality to the releases? I don't want to go down the path of something that been attempted but found too cumbersome to properly maintain. If I can get this done in time, I'd like to get it in to the 0.6.3 build if everyone is keen. Thanks, Todd
